Email today comes from a fellow whose rather ironic screen name is “Advanced Technology Solutions.”

I have a few questions for you. I am a Christian, and a strong Man in my faith, therefore these questions may be hard for you to respond to

1.) Are you a scientist?

I personally am not.

2.) Do you speak, write, or translate Hebrew, or Greek?

I have in the past learned to read some Hebrew, but never fluently.

3.) Are you a parent?

I am.

Below are my reasons for asking these questions

1.) If you are not a scientist, then in fact you must take the word of someone you have never met, and use it as evidence for your case. Guess who else does that? That’s right Christians do that every day.

It’s been a few months since I wrote about atheist parenting. In response to that post, I think one concern stands out more clearly than everything else. I’ll introduce it with excerpts from more emails we got recently:

I’d like to hear about how atheist parents combat attempts at faith indoctrination on their children from family and community. I know that eventually my son will have to decide for himself what he believes, but I’d like to give him the best chance at landing on a reality based on logic and evidence.